Post by Fryguy64 on Jun 1, 2011 19:27:11 GMT -5

This is the official thread for hunting for Kazumi Totaka's Song. As many of you know, Totaka's Song is a weird little tune dropped into nearly every game worked on by Nintendo's composer Kazumi Totaka.

Totaka's Song has been found in the following games:

X

Mario Paint

For the Frog the Bell Tolls

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

Virtual Boy Wario Land

Yoshi's Story

Mario Artist (Series)

Animal Crossing

Luigi's Mansion

Pikmin 2

Yoshi Touch & Go

Animal Crossing: Wild World

Animal Crossing: City Folk

X-Scape

The song has not been found in the following games that Kazumi Totaka has worked on:

Healthy Recipe Assistant 1000: DS Menu Anthology

Wave Race 64

Wii Sports

Wii Music

He also composed many of the Nintendo DS and Wii menu screens, although it's not clear if the song will show up in these places.

I have also received information from Joseph Rard that he may have composed the music for two other games, courtesy of the Canada Copyright Office, to whom Nintendo has submitted their staff lists since 1992. The other two games are:

F-1 Race (Game Boy)

Tetris & Dr. Mario (SNES)

If the song is in F-1 Race, it would replace X as the earliest song in the timeline.

In Japan, the song is referred to as けけソング (Keke Song), but a search for this phrase in combination with the games above more often than not brings up an incomplete list, Phil Bond's excellent YouTube videos, and MP3s ripped right off NinDB!

So, this isn't just about announcing new findings, but suggesting places to look... digging into each and every one of these games and finally putting some of them to rest. We are at the frontline of this endeavour, my friends!

Here's a few things to get us started:

Kazumi Totaka is in a band called A Slice of Life, and his primary instrument is the Vibraphone. Could the Vibraphone in Wii Music be a clue?

Most times Totaka's Song plays after around 3-4 minutes and almost always during a music track that you wouldn't normally hear for that long (e.g. Game Over, Instructions, The End, Results)

In Melody's ungodly insane difficult piano guessing game, there's a few choices you don't get to pick:-What a stirring performance! I haven't been so charmed by a piece for ages!You must have a delicate ear for music. Would you like to listen to my piano sonata?Well, here I go.

*Melody would play the piano here*

WaterSkyEr, I don't know.Mario Bros.Super Mario WorldSuper Mario Bros. 3Tataketo's themeTokeketa's themeTotakeke's themeBy the way...do you know the name of this piece?...By the way...what image do you think the piece's composer had in mind while writing it? *First setBy the way...that song was featured in a famous game. Do you know which game? *Second setBy the way...I wrote that song. Do you know what it is called? *Third set-I'm pretty sure this is where Totaka's Song was supposed to appear, instead of the controller style select menu. Or perhaps it still does?